Strong Binding Affinity of a Zinc-Porphyrin-Based Receptor for Halides through the Cooperative Effects of Quadruple CH Hydrogen Bonds and Axial Ligation

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (49) ◽  
pp. 13898-13903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-Hwa Lee ◽  
Sangeun Lee ◽  
Hongsik Yoon ◽  
Woo-Dong Jang
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomio Iwasaki ◽  
Masashi Maruyama ◽  
Tatsuya Niwa ◽  
Toshiki Sawada ◽  
Takeshi Serizawa

AbstractPeptides with strong binding affinities for poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) resin were designed by use of materials informatics technology based on molecular dynamics simulation for the purpose of covering the resin surface with adhesive peptides, which were expected to result in eco-friendly and biocompatible biomaterials. From the results of binding affinity obtained with this molecular simulation, it was confirmed that experimental values could be predicted with errors <10%. By analyzing the simulation data with the response-surface method, we found that three peptides (RWWRPWW, EWWRPWR, and RWWRPWR), which consist of arginine (R), tryptophan (W), and proline (P), have strong binding affinity to the PMMA resin. These amino acids were effective because arginine and tryptophan have strong binding affinities for methoxycarbonyl groups and methyl groups, which are the main constituents of the PMMA resin, and proline stabilizes the flat zigzag structures of the peptides in water. The strong binding affinities of the three peptides were confirmed by experiments (surface plasmon resonance methods).


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 117793221880970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arwa A Mohammed ◽  
Ayman MH ALnaby ◽  
Solima M Sabeel ◽  
Fagr M AbdElmarouf ◽  
Amina I Dirar ◽  
...  

Background: Mycetoma is a distinct body tissue destructive and neglected tropical disease. It is endemic in many tropical and subtropical countries. Mycetoma is caused by bacterial infections ( actinomycetoma) such as Streptomyces somaliensis and Nocardiae or true fungi ( eumycetoma) such as Madurella mycetomatis. To date, treatments fail to cure the infection and the available marketed drugs are expensive and toxic upon prolonged usage. Moreover, no vaccine was prepared yet against mycetoma. Aim: The aim of this study is to predict effective epitope-based vaccine against fructose-bisphosphate aldolase enzymes of M. mycetomatis using immunoinformatics approaches. Methods and materials: Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase of M. mycetomatis sequence was retrieved from NCBI. Different prediction tools were used to analyze the nominee’s epitopes in Immune Epitope Database for B-cell, T-cell MHC class II and class I. Then the proposed peptides were docked using Autodock 4.0 software program. Results and conclusions: The proposed and promising peptides KYLQ show a potent binding affinity to B-cell, FEYARKHAF with a very strong binding affinity to MHC I alleles and FFKEHGVPL that shows a very strong binding affinity to MHC II and MHC I alleles. This indicates a strong potential to formulate a new vaccine, especially with the peptide FFKEHGVPL which is likely to be the first proposed epitope-based vaccine against fructose-bisphosphate aldolase of M. mycetomatis. This study recommends an in vivo assessment for the most promising peptides especially FFKEHGVPL.


2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 407-412
Author(s):  
Pei-Hui Shan ◽  
Zhi-Rui Zhang ◽  
Dong Bai ◽  
Bing Bian ◽  
Zhu Tao ◽  
...  

The binding interactions between six biogenic amine guests and the iQ[7] host were investigated. The experimental results have revealed that iQ[7] shows strong binding affinity towards five of the studied biogenic amines, but not histamine, and that the binding sites are different depending on the structure of the biogenic amine.


2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (70) ◽  
pp. 13496-13499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiantian Jia ◽  
Molly M. J. Li ◽  
Lin Ye ◽  
Sam Wiseman ◽  
Guoliang Liu ◽  
...  

Single layer MoS2synthesized by exfoliation with Li is demonstrated to take up the dye molecule, Eosin Y, with strong binding affinityviasulfur vacancies.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Normant ◽  
Leonid Gorelik ◽  
Rama Shmeis ◽  
Henry Le ◽  
Robert Nisch ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 888-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song-Bo Lu ◽  
Hongxin Chai ◽  
Jas S. Ward ◽  
Mao Quan ◽  
Jin Zhang ◽  
...  

A 2,3-dialkoxynaphthalene-based naphthocage was synthesized. It shows similarly strong binding affinity to organic cations as the 2,6-dialkoxynaphthalene-based naphthocage but different guest preference and conformational response.


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 749
Author(s):  
Beata Szefler ◽  
Przemysław Czeleń

Platinum compounds are anti-cancer drugs and can bind to canonical purine bases, mainly guanine, found within double helical DNA. Platinum compounds can be transferred directly to pathologically altered sites in a specific and site-oriented manner by nanocarriers as potential nanocarriers for carboplatin. Two types of nanostructures were used as potential nanocarriers for carboplatin, the first were functionalized C60 fullerene molecules and the second were rhombellanes. The analyzed nanostructures show considerable symmetry, which affects the affinity of the studied nanocarriers and ligands. Thus symmetry of nanostructures affects the distribution of binding groups on their surface. After the docking procedure, analysis of structural properties revealed many interesting features. In all described cases, binding affinities of complexes of platinum compounds with functionalized fullerene C60 are higher compared with affinities of complexes of platinum compounds with rhombellane structures. All platinum compounds easily create complexes with functionalized fullerene C60, CID_16156307, and at the same time show the highest binding affinity. The binding affinities of lobaplatin and heptaplatin are higher compared with oxaliplatin and nedaplatin. The high value of binding affinity and equilibrium constant K is correlated with creation of strong and medium hydrogen bonds or is correlated with forming a hydrogen bond network. The performed investigations enabled finding nanocarriers for lobaplatin, heptaplatin, oxaliplatin and nedaplatin molecules.


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